At 2/15/07 12:49 AM, TakeNoPrisoners wrote:
There's only one fucking Power Metal and the Power Metal that you're talking about is now just Speed.
You still agree that Speed was called Power once then?
I can quote shit.
"When young bands started doubling the already brain-bending attributes of heavy metal, adding steroid tonnage to the most explosibe moments, they created power metal. The term was used broadly to describe everything from the wall of sound of Exciter to the doomy black cries of Mercyful Fate, ultimately defining a sound with twice the crunch of classic heavy metal. Two times the speed, two times the spikes; power metal had double everything. Accept, Jag Panzer, and Warlock took dual guitar leads, histrionic covals, and pounding drums to a powerful place, without redically rearranging the rules of Judas Priest and Iron Maiden. Their music protected the inner core of metal from MTV video compromise and paved the way for thrash metal soon afterward." - Ian Christe, metal journalist.